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The transsexual empire : the making of the she-male

Transsexualism questions what gender is, how to challenge it, and what reinforces gender stereotyping in a role-defined society. The introduction to this reissued feminist work discusses how these issues are now debated in the context of transgender, which can lead to caricatures of femininity.Read more...

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Originally published: Boston : Beacon Press, 1979."Reissued with a new introduction on transgender."

Description:

xxxv, 220 pages ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Introduction: Some Comments on Method (for the Methodical) --
I. "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Transsexualism" --
II. Are Transsexuals Born or Made --
or Both? --
II. "Mother's Feminized Phallus" or Father's Castrated Femme? --
IV. Sappho by Surgery: The Transsexually Constructed Lesbian-Feminist --
V. Therapy as a Way of Life: Medical Values versus Social Change --
VI. Toward the Development of an Ethic of Integrity --
Appendix: Suggestions for Change.